Tuesday was the Super Bowl media day, the league’s annual circus ahead of the big game. It’s a rite of passage for the players fortunate enough to get to the Super Bowl and the reporters lucky enough to cover– oh who are we kidding? Everyone’s there to hear Marshawn Lynch not talk (and then write about Marshawn Lynch not talking), ask Tom Brady about his deflated footballs and provoke Richard Sherman into some trash-talking.

So in case you missed it, here were some of the highlights (and lowlights) of Super Bowl XLIX media day in Arizona:

There is seemingly no end to Deflategate, the NFL’s investigation into whether the New England Patriots used underinflated footballs during their AFC Championship victory over the Colts.

On Thursday, coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady addressed the media, both denying they did anything to alter the footballs and both denying they had any knowledge of someone else doing so.

“I have no knowledge of anything. I have no knowledge of any wrongdoing,” Brady told reporters, echoing what Belichick said earlier in the day. “I’m very comfortable saying that. I’m very comfortable saying nobody did it, as far as I know.”

The controversy has elicited a mix of reactions from players past and present over the last few days, some claiming the Patriots flat-out cheated, others saying the issue has been taken out of proportion. After Brady’s new conference, however, a flood of opinions took over social media:

Brady likes his footballs at 12.5. How does it get below 13.5? Which is what NFL specs are.hmmmmmmm

Roger Goodell has faced calls for his resignation, but he also has the support of those who have the power to remove him. (Alex Goodlett, Getty Images)

Fans have weighed in. Pundits have weighed in. Players have weighed in. Politicians have weighed in. Owners have weighed in. Everyone has an opinion of whether NFL commissioner Roger Goodell should keep his job in the wake of a string of domestic violence cases.

And yet, there’s no consensus. Here’s what we’ve been told:

SI surveyed 500 people across the country, and only 37.8 believe he should be fired, while 28.5 percent think he deserves to keep his job and an 33.6 percent are unsure.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell spoke to reporters in New York on Thursday. (Elsa, Getty Images)

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the media Friday for the first time since his CBS News interview in which he tried to explain the league’s decision and process in suspending Ray Rice indefinitely.

Since then, a handful of other cases have come up — Adrian Peterson, Greg Hardy, Jonathan Dwyer, Ray MacDonald — and a number of fumbled news conference by owners and missteps by the league have followed.

The NFL has perhaps never faced a more embarrassing and alarming few weeks than it has now, leading to even its biggest sponsors, including Anheuser-Busch and Nike, to start raising red flags and even suspending their deals with the league.

On Friday, Goodell must have felt that he could no longer hide. He, again, said that he made a mistake. That he “got it wrong.” That he “is sorry.” That he is “trying to get it right.” That the league “needs outside help.”

But the general public has heard those lines many times throughout these past few months, from him and his owners.

(The commissioner also said he has not considered resigning — “We have a lot of work to do. That’s my focus.” — and that he believes he has the full support of the league’s owners — “That has been clear to me.”)

But while Goodell may have been very sincere in his words, that he was indeed very sorry for how the NFL has handled the Ray Rice incident and the other cases that have come up since, he didn’t offer a concrete plan for how the league would change its ways.

He said the league would strive to get a new personal conduct policy in place by the Super Bowl, but he didn’t say what changes he would like to see made to the policy.

He said the league has partnered with two outside organizations for domestic violence awareness, but he didn’t say how that would change things within the league.

He said he there have been inconsistencies in how the NFL has handled the varied cases over the last few weeks, but he didn’t explain why.

He said “everything is on the table” when asked if he would consider giving up some of his power to allow for more checks and balances in the league.

When asked about Robert Mueller conflict of interests in investigating a league his firm has represented in past contract negotiations, Goodell asked why anyone would question Mueller’s credibility.

When probed by reporters, Goodell failed to answer succinctly how things will change and why things have happened as they have. In short, he said he has been in numerous meetings, that there are many things that the league “needs to consider,” that they “need to get it right.” But offered no answers and no plans with real changes.

But it wasn’t just the media who appeared baffled by Goodell’s lack of reasoning Friday. Players, fans and countless others expressed their views on his address: Read more…

Ray Rice was released by the Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL on Monday. (Rob Carr, Getty Images)

Ray Rice was released by the Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL on Monday after a second video — of him punching his then fiancee in an Atlantic City casino elevator — surfaced from the incident earlier this year.

The episode has since caused a ripple effect in sports and beyond, leading even President Obama and members of Congress to comment on the issue. Here’s a roundup of the latest news and reports, which we’ll continue to update throughout the day, with the most recent news at the top.

• Goodell: NFL never saw second video: “We had not seen any video tape of what occurred in the elevator, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told CBS News. “We assumed that there was a video, we asked for the video, we asked for anything that was pertinent, but we were never granted that opportunity.”

• NFL never asked for video: According to TMZ Sports, which released the second video of the incident Monday, said that the league never contacted the Revel Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City about the video from inside the elevator.

Sources who worked at the casino at the time of the incident tell us … if the NFL had asked for the video, they would have gladly complied. Former employees have told us someone with an affiliation to the NFL saw the video, but we are now certain that someone was not from Goodell’s office or the core NFL executives.

• Obama says Rice is not “a real man”: “The president is the father of two daughters, and like any American, he believes that domestic violence is contemptible and unacceptable in a civilized society,” (White House Press Secretary Josh) Earnest said. “Hitting a woman is not something a real man does, and that’s true whether or not an act of violence happens in the public eye, or, far too often, behind closed doors. Stopping domestic violence is something that’s bigger than football, and all of us have a responsibility to put a stop to it.”Read more…

After answering a slew of questions from reporters after Day 1 of training camp on Thursday, Peyton Manning turned the tables on the media, picking out one reporter in particular.

Enjoy this interaction between Manning; The Denver Post’s Broncos reporter, Mike Klis; and the rest of the media at Dove Valley:

Manning: “I just have one question. What does it take to get—I mean, a lot of you guys have been here for a number of years and I see you all kind of stand over here, have to get quarantined and roped off, but then I see a certain media member that has all access out there on the field. I noticed he had a very tight shirt on today. Is that why he gets the all access (laughing)?

“[Mike] Klis, I don’t want to see you in a tight shirt, but that might be what it takes to get out there. I didn’t mention Jay Glazer, but maybe that’s who I was talking about. I mean, all-access, gets to ride with the head coach, so I think it’s the tight shirt. That was a boys small today. Maybe think about that if you want more access until then I guess you are all going to be over here in your little quarantine. I have nothing to do with the all access thing. Like I said, I think it’s the boy medium who’s wearing the small.

After skipping last week, which was supposed to be an uneventful bye, this week in review will go all the way back to Nov. 2, when Broncos coach John Fox was hospitalized with a heart problem.

Saturday: Mid-afternoon, news broke that Fox had experienced light-headedness while golfing in Charlotte and was taken to a local hospital. As the evening unfolded, more details became available, first that he was undergoing tests and was hopeful to be released and eventually that he’d have to undergo aortic valve replacement surgery. It also became known that Fox was aware of the condition and had hoped to postpone the necessary procedure until after the season.

This question comes from Chris Hatfield via email, and it’s a great one on a day like today and something I’ve thought a lot about.

First off, no, it’s not a HIPAA violation. The coaches and players are providing the information themselves through their teams, and it would only be a HIPAA violation if the physicians were talking to the media without authorization from players and coaches. (For that matter, Fox’s physicians haven’t even spoken publicly.)

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger calls a play against the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland on Jan. 1, 2012.

As the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback who has played in three Super Bowls and has also been involved in his share of embarrassing off-field incidents, Ben Roethlisberger is accustomed to dealing with the pros and cons of life in the public eye.

But even Big Ben seemed astounded by the constant attention — both good and bad — paid to Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

“It’s got to be tough,” Roethlisberger said during a conference call today with the Denver media. “Every time you turn it on, you see something about Tebow. I can only imagine what it’s like for his teammates. Just watching today, it’s the Steelers versus Tim Tebow. No, it’s the Steelers versus the Broncos, so I can only imagine what it’s like for him with all the eyes and the attention on him and the pressure. It can’t be fun. I feel for him a little bit.”

Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow kneels in prayer prior to last Sunday's game against the Bears.

This morning’s Tim Tebow media smorgasbord has a little bit of everything, from a pastor who once hosted Tim Tebow’s father saying the Broncos’ victories are because of “God’s favor,” to a Kim Kardashian reference from a writer at the business magazine Forbes, to the Patriots trying to find someone to imitate Tebow in practice this week.

Let’s start with the pastor, Wayne Hanson. According to the TMZ website, Hanson — who runs Summit Church in Castle Rock — God is actively intervening in Broncos football games.

Nicki Jhabvala is a Broncos beat writer for The Denver Post. She was previously the digital news editor for sports. Before arriving in Denver, she spent five years at Sports Illustrated working primarily as its online NBA editor. She also spent two years as a home page editor at the New York Times.